May 15, 2013

Haskell Weekly News: Issue 267

Welcome to issue 267 of the HWN, an issue covering crowd-sourced bits of information
about Haskell from around the web. This issue covers the week of April 28 to May 11, 2013.

Quotes of the Week

ciaranm: a category is just a category in the category of categories

cmccann: the Either monad is like the Maybe monad, except with something instead of Nothing.

sclv: Q: Why are the adjunctions of Galois connections backwards? A: He never got the hang of duals.

acowley: blackdog's experience with IDEs is apparently both more sensual and more culinary than mine

cmccann: shachaf jokes are what the quotes section of HWN is for. cmccann: though lately there have been not as many :[ shachaf: cmccann: Hey, there wasn't a single shachaf quote in the last HWN! shachaf: Leave me alone. shachaf: There were two cmccann quotes.

edwardk: cmccann: i'm NDA'd out of that space for a while ;)elliott: edwardk just collects NDAs so that he can focus.

trapdInIO: in java everything happens elsewhere

edwardk: i never bothered to release the c preprocessor because it was entangled with an old compiler of mind

acowley: I get nervous when I haven't triggered the impossible for more than a month or so :/